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--- integrating_home_assistant_with_freshtomato [2026/10/11 19:02] – -Change intro to reflect two available integration implementations, add excerpts, details hogwild
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 ====== Integrate FreshTomato with Home Assistant ======
-If you integrate Home Assistant with FreshTomato, you can track/monitor devices connected to the FreshTomato router. As of this writing, there are currently two known implementations of HA-FreshTomato integration.\\   \\ First, the implementation on the Home Assistant website. See this page to learn how to configure a basic setup:
+Home Assistant can be integrated with FreshTomato. This allows you to track/monitor devices connected to the FreshTomato router. Currently, there are two known implementations of HA-FreshTomato integration.
+ \\
+==== Option 1 ====
+ \\ The first implemenation is on the Home Assistant website. See this page to configure a basic setup:
 [[https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tomato/]]  \\   \\   \\  {{:ft_stats_showing_in_home_assistant.png?600}}
-However, before using this, you should be aware of the large limitation this code has: Excerpted from the webpage:
+ \\
+This integration is confirmed to work with FreshTomato (ARM) since r2020.8. However, this implementation has a **large limitation**. \\
+Excerpt from the webpage: \\ "This particular Tomato integration allows one to track devices which are connected to a //wireless// router that is running Tomato as firmware. Because of a limitation in Tomato’s API, //this integration will only track wireless devices."//
+ \\
+While the contributor's code is greatly appreciated, technically speaking, the above statement is only partly accurate. It's not a FreshTomato limitation that prevents wireless clients from being tracked. It's more so the way the integration code was written.
+ \\
+==== Option 2 ====
+ \\
+ha-freshtomato, the other implemenation, may work better. It tracks //both wired and wireless// clients. It also appears to add more functionality.
-This particular Tomato integration allows one to track devices which are connected to a wireless router that is running __Tomato__ as firmware.
+[[https://github.com/mx5gr/ha-freshtomato]]
-Because of a limitation in Tomato’s API, **this integration will only track wireless devices**.
+ \\
-This integration is confirmed to be working with __FreshTomato__ 2020.8
+  * ha-freshtomato is courtesy of Github user jakub-medrzak.
-\\   \\  The github page containing the Home Assistant source code for Tomato integration can be found here: [[https://github.com/home-assistant/core/tree/dev/homeassistant/components/tomato]]  \\   \\   \\
+ \\
-Note that, at the time this wiki entry was written,
+ \\
-An alternative that may function better in many cases is ha-freshtomato [[https://github.com/mx5gr/ha-freshtomato]]
+ \\

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